Bible Verses About Perseverance

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Direct parallel to Matthew 10:22.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Clearest Gospel wording for endurance to salvation.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Direct passage on endurance and gaining life

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Direct Bible verse using perseverance with hope.

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Helpful continuation language for staying in the faith.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

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Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

Hold fast the confession without wavering

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Acts passage about tribulations before the kingdom.

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

Continue in what you learned and believed

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

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Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

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And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

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But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

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Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Hold fast sound words

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

Classic hold-fast text about remaining steadfast.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

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Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

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But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

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Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

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Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Paul endures all things for the elect

But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

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And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

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Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

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And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

Shows perseverance as part of Christian growth.

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Explicit persecution warning for godly living.

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

Stand fast and hold traditions

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Kept by God through faith for salvation

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

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Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

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Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

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Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

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For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Suffering for Christ is part of Christian calling.

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

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Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.

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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

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Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

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For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

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Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

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The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

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But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

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And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

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Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy God continually.

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Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

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But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

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And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

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But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

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All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

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And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

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And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

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Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

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My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

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I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

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As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

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Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

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Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

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And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,

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Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

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To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

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Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

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Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

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Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

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By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

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Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

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Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

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Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

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And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

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Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

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And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

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Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

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Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

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Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

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Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

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Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

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Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

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That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

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And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

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But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

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Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

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But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

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I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

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And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

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For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

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And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

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Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

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And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star.

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For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

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If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

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Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

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And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

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And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.

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